Apellate Court Overturns GOP Challenge in Local Elections
The Indiana Court of Appeals is lifting a Marion County court’s order regarding the treatment of absentee ballots.
Last week, a Marion County Judge ordered County Clerk Beth White to instruct all poll workers to treat any challenged mail-in absentee ballot like a provisional ballot. Republicans argued that the Clerk’s training manual was incorrect when it told poll workers to put all absentee ballots into voting machines.
The Court of Appeals ruled that absentee ballot challenges could be handled by precinct while in-person challenges be handled by the Election board.
GOP chairman Tom John says this gives more protection to mail-in votes than in-person votes thus creating a double standard.
More than 92,000 early votes have been cast in Marion County.
Note: at 6 p.m. tonight I got word that The Indiana Supreme Court just issued an order overturning the Court of Appeals ruling.
